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April 29, 2006, Saturday

FOR anyone in the private sector, the rise and very public fall of Harvey L. Pitt as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission would appear to be a career-stopping performance. Mr. Pitt had earned a stellar reputation in Washington as a...

November 10, 2002, Sunday

Bill Clinton was impeached, right? No one here at the Republican National Convention seems to recall. ''It's forgotten,'' said Robert L. Livingston, the former congressman from Louisiana, who abandoned his dream of being speaker and resigned his...

August 1, 2000, Tuesday

Representative David Vitter was elected today as Robert L. Livingston's successor in Congress, winning a close election over former Gov. David C. Treen. With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Mr. Vitter got 60,699 votes, or 51 percent, to Mr....

May 30, 1999, Sunday

Despite having five viable and conservative alternatives, one of every five voters in Louisiana's First Congressional District voted on Saturday for David E. Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader and self-styled defender of the rights of...

May 3, 1999, Monday

Former Gov. David C. Treen and state Representative David Vitter finished atop the nine-person field vying to succeed Robert L. Livingston as the congressman from Louisiana's First District tonight, and advanced to a runoff scheduled for May 29. ...

May 2, 1999, Sunday

On the surface, the special election to be held here on Saturday is about who will replace Robert L. Livingston, the veteran Congressman who admitted to marital infidelity and abruptly resigned last year as he was about to ascend to the most powerful...

April 29, 1999, Thursday

Today was the last working day for Representative Robert L. Livingston, the almost-Speaker of the House, who plans to go into business as a lobbyist here starting on Monday. In a short farewell address on the House floor, Mr. Livingston referred...